Today’s news about miniatures and miniatures-based games:

• Alternative Armies posted an image of their new Baron Petrochemicoli miniature for Flintloque and Slaughterloo.
• Catalyst’s Classic Battletech site announced that Technical Readout: 3085 is available in PDF form. They’d been planning to wait for Gen Con but decided to release it now.
• Darkson Designs will have limited quantities of its Basra 1946 product, a campaign supplement for AE-WWII, at Gen Con.
• The Faction Wars site says that all of the weapons should be sculpted by next week, and cast a couple of weeks after that.
• The Flames of War site says that Flames of War Army Kit Bags are back in stock now.
• Games Workshop has posted information about a new issue of White Dwarf (386) and pictures of Daemon Princes miniatures.
• Black Orc Games posted a stat sheet on the rules page for their Bushido Clan for Warband, currently in beta testing.
• Rackham Studio says that 750 people have signed up and downloaded the beta rules for Aarklash Warpack, and that their Summer Sales are ending soon.
• RedBrick Limited says that Nations of Barsaive Volume Two: Serpent River is now available.
• Rusted Heroes has received a studio-painted version of their Cromby Bil, Fusiler miniature for Knights of the Rose and posted pictures of the mini on their site.